The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-14
NOTES..

DIR. HOLMES characterizes Westminster
Abbey as "great museum of gigantic
funeral bric-a-brac.'
GIVING" remarks the Interior, sis
like hy-blister. 1t is a counter-irritant
to seliahness. 1t never does any good
till it hurts"
The life of JESUS was brief; but, as
Emerson has said, sit ploughed itself
into the world" Remarks the Christian
Life: "And yet that is not the best i'm
age. CHRIsTs own is better: 81, il be
lifted up, will draw all men unto me-
SAYS PROFESSOR AGAssIz: will frank
~ tell you that my experience in prolong-
ed scientific investigation convinces me
that belief in GoD-a COP who is be-
hind and within the chaos of vanishing
points OF human knowledge = adds a
wonderful stimulus to the man who at
tempts to penetrate into the regions of
the unknown.
BISHOP FOWLER, in his charge to the
candidates for the ministry at the New
England Conference, said: 81 hope you
are married. You ought to be-" On the
other hand, the Bishop of Manchester,
England, recently said: "Curates have
no business to marry when they are
young 1t was incumbent on every one
lay and cleric, to be prudent, and church.
men were not called upon to establish q
fund for encouraging improvidence."
JOHN BRIGHT, the Quaker English
statesman, said to General CLINTON B.
FISK: There is nothing that is going to
give such stability to this Government as
the religious instruction of our children
in Protestant Sunday schools of the
realm; and have read all about the in
your country, and your people are going
to be safe if you only stand by your Sun
day school men, and train up your chill
dren in the way of the Lord"
Two great German libraries are COM
ing to this country in short time, those
of Professor RANKE and Philologist SoHE-
RER. DIR. BENNETT, at Evanston, says
that the RANKE library was bought, not
for the institution at Evanston, of which
he is professor, but for Syracuse Uni
versity. The library contains about 15,-
900 volumes, and comprises the collec-
tions OF sixty years. The Scherer library
of 10000 volumes has been bought by
Adelbert College, of Cleveland, Ohio.
The price paid for the RANKE collection
was between $4,000 and $4,000.
In his article on pharaoh" in the May
Century, PROFESSOR PAINE, (who will
be remembered as the identifier of Mt.
Pisgah) advanced the novel theory that
RAMEsEs the GREAT married his own
daughter, the patroness of Moses. It
has been held by some authorities that
"Phasaoh's daughter" was the child of
SETI l., who preceded RAMEsEs the
GREAT, and that in uniting herself to
RAMEsEs she married her own brother;
PROFESSOR PAINE, however, points out
indications and evidence proving that
che was not the daughter, but the grand
daughter, of SETI, and that she married
her own father.
GEN. Francis A WALKER does not
share in the anxiety which finds pretty
free expression in scientific and literary
quarters, touching the spread of socialis-
tic IDEAS In an article in the Forum for
May he draws clear line of distinction
between the socialists" the terrible fire.
eaters, who would wreck, pillage and de-
stroy all civilization, and who are simply
to be treated With the club or the straight
jacket, or on occasion with the rope; and
the advocates of form of government
more or less socialistic, men who believe
that government is best employed in
promoting in every fair and feasible way,
the good of the governed.
"WHEN we begin to measure REVEALS"
wisely says lions Herald, "by the let.
ting of pews, or the increase of income,
these gracious seasons will become rare.
The broadcast and most hopeful field be-
fore us is among the class depending
upon daily labor. No church can fail to
perpetuate herself that is constantly
seeking accessions by conversions from
this class. Instead of asking whether those
that kneel at our affairs will add to our
financial abilities, we should be ready to
protfer them, if necessary, the very pew in
which we sit to secure them and their
families as worshipers in the house of
God" That is the right kind of talk for
these times.
Rev. w. ]. POTTER, in recent letter
to Unity, says of the "cspital city of the
old Dominion and ex-capital of the ex-
confederate States" Richmond abounds
in churches. The South was always
pious; even in the old days of cock-fghts,
and duels, and slave auctions, it never
forgot its piety, and it is still pious.
Judging from the throngs of people on
the streets at service time, the churches
are we'll filed; but there is not liberal
one among them,-except Universalist
church, which only has meetings occa-
sionally. An attempt was made soon
after the war to start q Unitarian society
here. but it failed. Perhaps the result
might be- different now"
"LEwIs CARROLL" beautifully says in